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Presents a public value framework to appraise GOV.UK One Login, arguing standard cost–benefit analysis poorly captures digital public infrastructure value and demonstrating how broader appraisal tools reveal different benefits and trade-offs.
Discusses digital public infrastructure (DPI) as shared government foundations intended to reduce duplication, improve services and fiscal outcomes, and notes difficulties in getting DPI systems started and assessing successes and failures where they operate.
UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose argues for treating digital systems—such as IDs, payments and data exchanges—as infrastructure, applying infrastructure economics to assess their properties and fit with political and institutional contexts.
A new UCL IIPP series examines the political economy of digital public infrastructure, arguing DPI is broader than the India Stack’s ID, payments and data exchange model and highlighting the infrastructural nature and policy implications of wider DPI choices.